Cats everywhere

After having considered it for quite a long time already, I finally took the decision to visit the Parisian version of Neko Café - yes, a cats café!

Actually there are two cafés of the sort in Paris, one of a quite old-fashioned style - in an old building with arched cellar, stone walls, etc. - and another one, in a slightly more recent and modern looking building. Of course I wanted to try the quaintest of the two... Much more appealing, in my opinion :-)

I actually managed to enter without having made a reservation (it usually gets crowded very easily) and find myself a little place to sit next to some of the most beautiful guests of the place.

Never had I been so uninterested in my food or drink...

Tiny paw

The blue hour

Sleeping kitty

Reflection

Poetry corner

Having a stroll in the streets, I came upon a certainly unusual wall... Arthur Rimbaud's famous poem, Le Bateau Ivre, was painted - quite the whole of it, I think - on this very plain stone wall.

Isn't it surprisingly nice?

Writing on the wall

Open-air poetry

Ergo sum

Squirrels everywhere

Very friendly and not wild at all, one of London parks most renowned guests, I give you: the squirrel!

They were horribly difficult to photograph though, moving all the time to opposite directions...
But aren't they cuties?

Dirty nose


Agility king


Playful squirrel

The Tube

London metro stations logo is just too clever: easy to spot, easy to remember, easy to re-use.

I've seen numerous stores having adapted the underground sign into a personalized one, that they had proudly put forward onto the shop front. Good way to trick everyone into coming to their store!

Regarding the London underground itself - the 'Tube' as they call it - the first thing that came to my mind was 'Wow, so clean!'. Well it's definitely very expensive also, maybe that explains a bit of its difference with the Paris metro? Or maybe not. Anyway, very crowded at business hours like everywhere, so not that a pleasant experience to be honest.

Let's rather keep in mind its nice logo and the numerous pictures I've taken of it!

Metro station

Underground sign

In the Tube

London pubs

I've eaten in pubs during the whole of my trip to London, there was such a very nice atmosphere in every of them. Truly nice to sit and watch things and people around :-)

From old-fashioned stools to bottles of sauce served in a metal bucket, I could have spent all day photographing everything with my camera!

Pub and eating house


Pub menu


Bottles of sauce


Nicely old-fashioned

Red boxes

I was eager to see those famous red letter and phone boxes again: such an unusually bright color, even though French letter boxes - being yellow - are not that much of a discreet color either.

I tried to capture as many of them as I could, but I was quite a pain for the other pedestrians (being in the middle of the way while taking pictures) so I had to quit doing this after a few photos... Sad failed project...

I've saved a sample of each though, here comes a delightful wave of red color:

Coins and cards

Red letter box